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THE UNION & RECORDER.
Old “Southern Recorder” and
consolidated/)
Federal Union ’
KZl&ESaBVZL&B, GA:
Wednesday, July 8, 1874.
Georgia lawyer Ridden.
The Telegraj/h & Messenger takes is
sue with us for saying Georgia is lawyer
ridden, when every' well-informed man in
the State knows that, from the Governor
down, every- office in the State, worth
having, is filled by lawyers, and that all
of our laws are made, expounded and ex
ocuted by lawyers. We agree with the
Telegraph that it is not his province to
defend lawyers, neither is it necessary.
He is understood to be in favor of Col.
Blount for Congress, and we have already
admitted that Col. Blount is not enough
#f a lawyer to do lrinr any harm. The
Telegraph says also that three of our
members in Congress arc not lawyers.—
We do not know all of our delegation
personally, but wo have frequently seen
it stated and heard it asserted they were
all lawyers, and although we have no
doubt the Telegraph men believe they
are correct, yet we know they are subject
to be mistaken or misinformed like other
men. or like ourselves, ami we still
think they may be mistaken on this sub
je -t. But if we were mistaken and the
Telegraph is right— if Gen. Young and
Mr. Harris never were lawyers and Gen.
Gordon is not now a lawyer—this show
ing proves that our best representatives
and most efficient Senator are not law
yers, for it is notorious that these gen
tlemen whom the Telegraph says are not
lawyers aro our most efficient men in
both houses of Congress, and we wish to
add to the number of our useful and ef
ficient members in Congress by electing
Mr. Nutting, a man who has already
shown himself pre eminently practical
and useful in our State legislature.
The people have become disgusted with
the present Congress—all talk and no
work, all words and no deeds that are of
arr>- benefit to the country.
The Next Congresssonal Race
Under this caption, we publish in an
other place a communication from Macon
over the signature of Bibb. We agree
heartily with Bibb in many of his state
ments. We certainly should put in nom
ination one of our best and strongest
men. Hut who is he? that is the ques
tion Bibb names four noted lawyers all
of Macon We admit these are all good
lawyers, but that does not prove they
would make good Statesmen, or would
be strong before the people. Bibb seems
to take for granted that a man that can
make the best stump speech, will get the
largest vote. That was once the cas
Georgia, but is so no longer. We are
becoming a practical people. We have
com and felt how futile and useless these
speeches are, and how very inefficient
many of these speakers are as legislators
and statesmen. Bibb admits that Mr.
N itting has mind enough, but that he is
no speaker. Well, what if he is not
speaker Most of these great speakers
do very little but harm. Neither Gen
Washington or Dr. Franklin were speak
ers, and yet they were first rate States
men. We believe the white men will
nearly all turn out anti vote for a good
practical, sound man Such a man is Mr.
Nutting and we hope Bibb will not bo
discouraged, but will help us elect him
Never mind about the stump speeches,
very few will go out to hear them if they
are made. White men have something
else to do now.
MM—
The
Gen. Grant’s Third Term.
It is generally admitted now by friend
and foe that Gen. Grant desires a third
term of office, and if a third term he de
sires to be made President for life. But if
he is to be elected for a third term, will
ho try to get the Republican nomination,
or will he run as an independent candi
date? If he wishes to have a -nomination
of the Republicans he can easily get it
The patronage he has under his control
and the great army of office-holders he
has at his command will give him the
n omination if he desires it. But he lias
of late set at defiance many of the lead
ers of the Republican party and has also
shown considerable liberality towards
some of the Southern leaders. These
things together with the evident waning
popularity of the Republican party have
led many to believe that Gen. Grant does
not desiro the Republican nomination,
but would prefer to run on an independent
schedule as a Grant man, or a people’s
man. We believe he will bo defeated let
him take what course he may. If he gets
the Republican nomination, such are the
corruptions and rascalities that have been
proven upon the party, that he and the par
ty together must sink under the load of
public odium. If he attempts to run as
an independent candidate many of the
Republicans will vote against him, and
the most ho can do, will be to throw the
election of President into Congress, and
what then would be the result no man
can tell.
Why Zs It?
We ask why is it, that nearly or quite
every man in Georgia that is spoken of
as a candidate for Congress, except Mr.
Nutting, is a lawyer? Have the people
really been made to believe that lawyers
have all the sense in the country and that
wisdom will die with them, or do they
think that lawyers have more honesty
than other men ? If they think that, it
is only lately they have come to that con
clusion. Is it not because lawyers push
themselves forward more than other men,
and make most of the nominations, and
make more noise than other men? That,
we >elieve is the reason, and tire people
have let them do all the talking until they
ti„nk jc is right, and that they are the
oracles of the country and that no man
has a rignt to run for any office without
the.r permission. We admit that some
of our most capable and best men are
lawyers, but it is not such as these that
are most clamorous for office. They can
do better by minding their business at
home. But those -who are most anxious
* or office generally have very little busi-
-iess at home. We believe the people of
the Sixth Congressional District have
become tired of a lawyer oligarchy, and
have determined to send a good sound
business man to represent them in Con
gress as an experiment and see if he will
not do at least as well as any of the law
yarsdiave done, perhaps better.
A Contrast.—We are told that Mr.
Nutting in his youth was taught to labor
and to get, his living by the sweat of his
brow, whilst the lawyers who are running
against him were taught to talk aud io
pet their living by sweating fo r ; r -* -
Next Congressional Race.
liicov, Ga., June 30, 1874.
Editor Union d Recorder:
As yours is the only paper in the Dis
trict that has the candor and independ-
enee to publish anything adverse to its
own candidate, I will avail myself of your
columns to express a few thought® of
mine on the next Congressional race.—
Col. Blount and Mr. Nutting are actively
urging their own claim for the nomina
tion to Congress, and a small circle ol
their personal friends arc aiding them.
The contest is very warm and 1 don't
know which one of them will get tlu-
recommendation of the county. I think
it unfortunate for each of them and for
the people that either one of them should
succeed. I don’t think that either one of
them iB competent to fill the office with
dignity and ability, and hence I take part
for neither. The greater part of the
people here feel just as I do about it
They may vote for them but not because
they are their choice. Our people ought
to nominate Anderson or Whittle or Ba
con or Jackson who are all very superior
men in intellect and then they could go
before the District Convention with some
confidence and ask its endorsement. The
people ought to bring out the very best
talents they have for members to Con
gress and not think they are obliged to
elect a man from the number who seek it.
The office seekers are not always the best
men for office. Wo ought to use our in
dependent judgment about such matters,
as it concerns us much more to have
good men than the office seekers We
will never enjoy prosperity and happi
ness as we once did until we can get rid
of the importunity of the office seekers.
We can only do so by showing them that
we have a contempt for them and that we
are always determined to put the very
best men in office.
I think the Radicals aro going to give
ns a strong fight this Fall, and if they
do their chances are to ran in unless we
put forward a man who can by his ability
and eloquence rally tlie people. There
will be no state or county officers to
elect on the same day to bring out the
people. If then we have a candidate for
Congress that can’t excite enthusiasm
among the people he will be sure to be
defeated. It is not every man who will
come out to vote just for the success of
his party. Many of them have to be
hunted up and brought out, and no one
will put himself to the trouble to do so
unless the candidate suits him. This is
a matter that ought to be well thought of
by the people, and when they meet in the
convention they ought to canvass the
names of every competent man in the
District and nominate that man who can
make the hardest fight and rally the party
with most enthusiasm.
The press of the State ought to take
hold of this matter before tim conven
tion meets. Let us have the very best
man in the District Either of the four
men that I named will do. Col. Blount
and Mr. Nutting can’t excite the people.
Mr. Nutting has mind enough I grant,
but he has no faculty for speaking. And
Col. Blount just did manage to pull
through in some sections last year.
A Newspaper Gag Raw Enacted
After AU.
Washington, D. C., June 27.
There have been numerous mysterious
hints thrown ont since Congress adjourn
ed that when the full import of the bills
which passed and were signed during the
last days of the session become known
the press would find out that a more
stringent law for its control had been
passed than the one for which it was
criticising Senator Carpenter so severely.
These intimations turn ont to be true.
It appears that under the guise of depri
ring the Police Court of this District, of
the power it claimed over the press o f the
country, Mr. Poland reported a bill at
the night session, which passed without
debate, that takes this power from the
Police Court and transfers it to the Cir
cuit Court, and then in a second section,
by making the 33d section of an old act
of 1789 apply to the courts created by
Congress in tho District of Columbia,
makes it possible to begin a suit for libel
here against an editor of a newspaper any
where, arrest him by warrant of the
court. Justice of the Peace, or other mag
istrate, and bring him here for trial, all
expenses to be paid by the United States
The bill was managed very quietly in
both Houses, and the effect of the second
section was not alluded to in either body.
Mr. Edmunds reported the bill to the
Senate, and subsequently Mr. Frelingliuy
sen called it up and said it was very
important, and bad been carefully con-*
sidered by tho Judiciary Committee, and
it was passed without debate.
This is nice business for Senators Po
land and Edmunds, of Vermont, and
Frelinghuysen, of New Jersey, to bo on
gaged in. Their action was scandalous
in the extreme, and would really warrant
under tho circumstances severe punish
ment by Congress. They were all aware
that the Carpenter bill had failed, as it
would not be adopted by the House of
Representatives. Therefore, they lent
themselves to the dirty trick of substan
tially passing it in a new form and under
a guise that concealed its infamous fea
tnres from the members of both Houses.
The members above alluded to and the
Senate Judiciary Committee should not
be suffered to escape the immense respon
sibility they have assumed. The press
should unanimously demand the repeal
of this fraudulent statute at the open
ing of the next session.—Cincinnati
Enquirer.
Meeting of the Democratic Execu
tive Committee.
Atlanta, Ga., July 1, 1874
Rot Small Men Sake Back Seats.
This ecems to be the unanimous ver
dict of the press and people of this State
Executive Committee met at 10 o dock, retei tmee to the approaching OoB-
Colonel Hardeman in the chair, end the il and Legislative elections.
am told that his speeches during the race
disappointed the expectations of the party
and but for the other interests at stake
he would have been defeated.
BIBB
Wilkinson County.—We are indebted
to a Wilkinson county fanner for the fol
lowing items:
Crops in Wilkinson county are very
fine. The acreage of cotton has been re
duced 25 or 30 per cent and corn cor
respondingly increased. Small grain has
been increased in acreage fully 40 per ct.
on the past year.
A. M. Smith of Bioodworth's District
has made and got out 289 bushels of
wheat and a quantity of oats.
The Grangers’ Thrash of this county
has got out about 5,000 bushels of wheat
and oats this season.
John Lord killed a large rattle snake
at his plantation, in Bioodworth’s Dis
trict, a short time since.
A Curiosity is the Hon. George A. La
Dow, the recently elected Democratic
Congressman from Oregon. He is a farm
er, and his nomination and election sur
prised and troubled him to such an ex
tent. that he fell sick. He spent no mo j
ney and made no speeches, remaining
quietly on his farm while his Radical and
“Independent" competitors were scurry
ing over the country and howling about
their principles. The politicians of the
Pacific coast put La Dow down as an ass
because he would not electioneer, and
predicted his overwhelming defeat. Now
they swear he is a “deep” old chap, and
knew exactly what he was about.
There' is a heavy majority for a con
stitutional convention in Arkansas, and
Conservative and Democratic delegates
are elected in almost every county heard
from. The old constitution, which the
convention is expected to do away with,
was formed in 1868, and was “ratified"
by fraudulent votes. It was even unsat
isfactory to its framers, their being scarce
ly a point in it that was not objected
to by one or tnore*of them at the time of
its adoption. It is the constitution under
wliicb Powell Clayton was elected Gov
ernor, and under which the State has
been plundered by the Republicans.
Georgia News.
Gen 1*1111. Cook is urged for renomina
tion for Congressional honors from the
Third District.
The Board of Trustees of Mercer Uni
versity has conferred the following de
grees: D. D.—Professor William H.
Whitsett, of the Southern Theological
Seminary, Greenville, South Carolina.
M. (Honorary)—Rev. John L. Under
wood, of Camilla, Ga.; Rev. James H.
Allen, Milledgeville, Ga. A. M. (In Course)
—Rev. .Kerr Boyce Tupper, Richmond,
Va.; W- Theophilus Brantly, Baltimore,
Md.; Rev. E. R. Carswell, Richmond
county, Ga.; J. J. Brantly, Jr., Macon,
Ga.; K. C. Sanders, Dublin, Georgia.
Vica Chancellor Mell, of Georgia Uni
versity, has recently been delivering a
course of lectures on Parliamentary Law,
to the Senior class. This is a rather
novel feature of a University course, as it
has never before been dime in any other
college or university in this country or in
Europe.
Emory College, the Methodist institu
tion at Oxford, Georgia, owns property
to the value $100,000, but has an endow
ment of only $17,700, The College was
chartered by the Legislature of Georgia
in 1837, and shows a- total since 1841,
of 520 Alumni, which will probably be in
creased, the present year, by 24—the
number of the Senior Class. The cata
logue for 1873-74 contains the names of
155 undergraduates,—55 in the Academic
and 100 in the Collegiate department.
Rev. O. L. Smith D. D., is President, and
Prof. G W. W. JStbne,' A. M„ Vice Presi
dent. The College, in its time, has “cre
ated" 22 Dwfctetw of Divinity and five
Doctors of Law.—Madison Journal.
Bishop Beckwith will spend the sum
mer in Marietta.
Lochrnne refuses to ran against Free
man foi* Congress i b the Atlanta District,
on the ground that the latter is his uncle,
or brother-in-law, or something of that
sort Now what son of a breech-loading
air gnn will rise and say that there is
nothing in the ties of consanguinity?—
Sac. Ferns.
The country papers are industriously
circulating the information that there is
no law which prevents a granger from
attacking the freedom of the press with
watermelons.—Sa v. Mews.
“Lochrane for Governor," is the bur
den of tip B«i>ublic«n hroexe
“ r ■*" 1 SI.35 *** . »
The Third Term Conspiracy*
The Albany Argus, a leading Demo
cratic journal, is convinced that a third
term is meditated. It says “the nomina
tion of President Grant in 1876 has been
rendered an imperative necessity by the
events of the past few months. He has
effectually divided the Republican party
on questions of principle, and holds it
united now solely by the bond of spoils.
He retains the allegiance of all the office
holders, of the friends of Morton and
Logan and Butler, as well as of the sup
porters of Conkling, Sherman and Mos
by. The political firm of Grant, Mosbv,
Morton & Co. is the only firm which
commands unquestioned service through
out the lirnd. The retainers of this firm
are expected to differ on every question
except the question of spoils. In former
years politicians were rendered cohesive
by the attraction of some great public
issue, upon which they were all agreed.
But the profligates who now control the
government have grown wiser. Their
adherents are found among all political
creeds; and thus the imity of opposition
on principle has boon effectually prevent
ed.
“The dangers of a third term are very
great. And there is but one way to avoid
them. The opposition must be concen
trated at once, and the Republican party
taught, by tho elections the coining fall,
that it must unload Grant. Particular
attention ought to bo paid to members
of Congress. The House of Representa
tives to be elected this year may be call
ed upon to choose the next President. "
The Seasonableness of Food.
A writer in Scribner s says: “The
wholesomeness of food depends nearly as
much on the time it is taken as on the j
quantity. We have grown so luxurious j
in our physical as well as our mental j
tastes, that we are constantly tempted to :
eat things oat of season. Yielding to
following gentlemen were found to be
present: Messrs. Augustus Reese, Hon.
James M. Hunter, Hon. H. Fielder, Col.
Mark Blanford, Hon. L. N. Trammell.
Col. J. L. Harris, Hon. J. C. Nichols,
Hon. J. H. Christy, Hon. T. G. Lawson,
Col. I. W. Avery and Col. J. S. Boyn
ton.
The Chair stated that the principal ob
ject of the call of the meeting was to
prevent nominations before the adjourn
ment of Congress.
The Chair announced the appointment
of Hon. Martin J. Crawford, to fill the
vacancy in the Columbus District. He
read a letter from Colonel Crawford sta
ting that he was nnable to attend, and
appointing Colonel Blandford to act for
him. There being no objection he took
his seat
It was stated by the chair that in sev
eral of the Congressional districts there
was no executive’committee, and suggest
1 ed that some action should be taken.
Colonel Blandford moved the call of a
State convention. The motion was dis
cussed in a conversational manner, and
finally decided in the negative.
Colonel Trammell moved that the chair
man be instructed to issue an address,
embodying the views of the committee.
The chairman stated that he had prepared
a brief statement of tho political situation,
which he read.
Colonel Reese moved that the state
ment be adopted as the action of the com
mittee. Unanimously carried.
To the Democratic Party of Georgia.
Atlanta, July 1, 1874.
You are soon to engage in another elec
tion for the control of your State. Your
former victories should not moke you
vain-confident of success. The opposition
are organized for the conflict. Are your
forces ready for the field? Is there union
and harmony in yonr ranks? Union is suc
cess; division is defeat. Select good men,
able men, to lead you, and give them a
united, hearty; cordial support Be not
divided by local issues—beware of jeak
ousies arising from “claims overlooked,”
“stocked conventions” and personal pre
judices. These are weapons furnished by
a skillful enemy to break your ranks and
defeat your cause. Look with distrust
upon “people’s tickets," “citizens’ candi
dates," when brought forward in opposi
tion to your regular nominees. They are
subterfuges generally of disappointed as
pirants; who are need by the opposition to
defeat your organization.
We cannot afford to destroy or weaken
the Democratic party. It has rescued
the State from Radical misrule; it has
broken the alliance that existed between
power and crime; it has checked the sys
tem of public plunder which was driving
our people to bankruptcy and rain; it has
restored the control of the government
to the virtue and intelligence of the
State; it has given Georgia a position in
the Union beyond that of her unfortu
nate sisters of the South. Will you, re
lying upon yonr majority, grow listless
and unconcerned? Remember bleeding
South Carolina. Will you split into pet
ty jealousies and endanger your success?
Tiiink of downtrodden Louisiana. Will
you, by a thirst for position and place,
distract and divide your forces? Look at
plundered Florida, and determine, that
in this contest, patriotism shall guide
your actions, and love of State control
your aspirations and your hopes.
Your defeat is Radical rule, and Radi
cal rule is oppression, civil rights bill,
plunder, bankruptcy and social degrada
tion. Your success gives assurance of
constitutional government, enforcement
of law, and maintenance of right. The
cause in worthy of yonr efforts—its suc
cess should be the day-star of your am
bition. Individual responsibility is es
senti il to a favorable termination of the
straggle. Let the campaign be quick,
sharp, decisive. Look well to you nomin
ating conventions. See to it that none
but men of integrity are offered to the
j people for their support—men who will
spurn the rings that would raid upon
your treasury—men who will look only
to Georgia’s interest and honor, and with
such men to bear your standards you will
command a victory. In the Federal elec
tions there is great ?ieed of action. In-
It is a fact generally recognized that it
is highly important to secure a full Demo
cratic delegation from this State. This
can only be done by putting in the field
men in whom the lieople have confidence
—men of political integrity as well as
ability. By “ability” we do not mean the
capacity to make stump.speeches. Any
fool, possessed .if sufficient brass, can do
this. It is not stump-speakers we want
but men of sense, men of action; and,
above all men of sterling integrity.
Let such men be fairly nominated in
all our Congressional districts, and there
will be no trouble in electing them. But,
on the other hand, let Bmall-fry, schem
ing, pot-house politicians be pat forward
by packed convention* and defeat nut m
surely awaits them. The people wul not
wilfully become particeps criminis in
such frauds as have sometimes been per
petrated upon them.
What we say of candidates for Congress
will apply with equal force to condi da tee
for the Legislature. By ooncert of action
and a thorough union of our forces, it is
very easy to secure a very large majority
in the Legislature, bnt our strength is
not so greath any where as to justify ns
in running weak men while, in some of
the counties, it will be hazardous to place
in the field a candidate who would be
likely to lose a single Democratic vote.
Political Morsels.
the temptation as we often do, we pay [difference, before, gave Georgia men in
the penalty, soon or late, m temporary | c on g lcss w ho would have inflicted upon
or chrome derangement of health. The
most of which is excellent in cold may
not be desirable in warm weather; fish is
best during spring and early summer;
vegetables are nutritious when they are
fully ripened by sun and season, and not
artificially stimulated. Nature knows
what she is doing; she furnishes for
every latitude the production fitted for
such latitude. We need variety not so
much at one time, as from time to time.
The delicacies of the season will not hurt
us; but the delicacies out of season will,
if long continued. The appetite so jaded
as to require oysters in July or strawber
ries in December needs careful correc
tion by the adoption of the simplest
habits. The palate naturally relishes
what nature has near at hand. As a rule,
not only is the simplest food the best
food, but the most seasonable is, in the
long run, the most appetizing. There is w ^ __
no difficulty in determining what we ' organize thoroughly in every county, so
should eat, since the products of our elk ! as to secure perfect harmony and united
the white people of the State injuries and
insults too revolting to contemplate. Jus
tice to yourselves, justice to your chil
dren. justice to peace and good order-
justice to humanity, justice to an igno
rant race, whom they would rain under
the guise of friendship—all require of us
active, decisive effort unceasing labor, to
brand these men with the seal of condem
nation, and remove them from a position
they have degraded and disgraced.
Men of Georgia! the issne is with you.
It is big with consequences. Do your
duty, and all will be well with you
and* your noble old State.
Respectfully submitted, **
Thos. Hardeman, Jb.,
Chm'n Dem. Ex. Com.
Introduced by Colonel Fielder:
Resolved, That the Democratic party
of this State be earnestly requested to
mate show us plainly month by month.
Fish, flesh and fruit by their plumpness,
tenderness and ripeness themselves de
note when they are ready to be eaten. A
sound stomach will profit by whatever an
unspoiled palate enjoys.”
The New Postmaster General.
Washington, July 3.—When on Wednes- .
day Representative Halo withdrew his ; am ended as follows;
acceptance of the Postmaster General** 1 . Rejoiced, That the Democratic party
ship, the President tendered the appoint- in Congressional districts that have
action, and the earnest co-operation of
every voter in the party. That we urge
upon every voter of the party to see to it
that he be legally qualified to vote, and
upon the managers of elections to see to
it that the law of the State prohibit-
i ing illegal voting is rigidly enforced.
' Carried
Introduced by Colonel Avery and
ment to Minister Jewell, but it was not
until late this afternoon that a cable tele- ;
gram was received from Jewell signifying
his acceptance. The President, on the
resignation of Cresswell, expressed to a j
friend that he intended the appointee
no district executive committee be recom
mended to hold Congressional conven
tion where the last Congressional conven
tion convened, and the said convention
be held in the fourth, on the second
Wednesday in September; in the fifth, on
should be from New England, and he has i ^ ednesday, 19th of August, and in the
now carried his design into effect.
While the appointment is generally
received with favor, surprise is expressed
that he should recall a minister who has
not been long at his post to discharge
the duties of an Executive officer at
home.
Although Mr. Jewell is popular at St.
Petersburg and finds his position agreea
ble, it has been known that he preferred
an office in his own country to a diplo
matic position. The settling of his af
fairs in Russia and the time necessarily
occupied on the return voyage will pre
vent him from entering upon the Post
master Generalship before 1st of Au
gust.
As the law provides that during the
absence of a Cabinet officer the appoint
ment of one ad interim, who shall not
continue for a longer period than'ten days,
and as the absence of Mr. Jewell was
necessary before a longer time, the Presi
dent to-day fully commissioned First
Assistant Marshall as Postmaster-Gener
al, to serve as such officer until Mr. Jewell
himaolf shall be prepared to assume the
duties of the position.
The question now discussed is, who
will be Jewell’s successor at St. Peters
burg, but at present there is nothing but
speculation concerning the subject, as the
President will take his time in making an
appointment.
Gen. Concha Killed.—Gen. Concha,
the commander in-chief of the Spanish
Republican forces, was killed on Sunday,
while directing an assault upon one of the
positions commanding the Carlist line of
retreat to the mountains.
—A western editor thinks that the
habit of carrying tobacco in the pistol
pocket is a bad one. To meet a man on
a lonely road and see him reach for his
tobacoo bos suggests unpleasant posai-
m
NMHi
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first, on the first Wednesday in Septem
ber, and in the eighth, if there be no ac
ting committee, that the convention be
held on the first Wednesday in Septem
ber. Carried.
Introduced by Colonel Reese :
Resolved, That we suggest that the
personal attendance byaspirants for Con
gress, upon primaries and county meet
ings, for the purpose of controlling their
action, and upon Congressional district
meetings for the purpose of electioneer
ing for the nomination, is disrespectful
to the delegates, and unbecoming the
dignity of the office sought. Carried.
Colonel Jones resigned as committee
man on account of inability to attend.
Thos. Hardeman, Chairman.
I. W Avert, Secretary.
Walking Women.—The best instance
of plucky women to be noted is the walk
ing tour of the Misses Ward and a party
of five American ladies, who are now
journeying on foot through Germany,
The ladies are accompained by a lad of
thirteen, and they are traveling with sketch
books and a light haversack, picking up
information and making an art tour of
the German towns. Walking is not us
ually a characteristic of American women;
but these ladies seem determined to set
an example, though it would have been
better to boast after the performance rath
er than beforehand.
Bau Time fob Collections.—The tel
egrams say our government has made a
peremptory demand on Spain for dam*>
ages actual and consequential, for the
capture of the Virginias and the destruc
tion of her crew. Spain will have to con
sult the Life Insurance tables and find
out what she owes in reals as the result
of this foolish piece of barbarity. It is a
bad time for Spain to settih this little
bill, but there’s no help for her. Sha is
.ill no-eondition to ignore the dun.
[From tlie Detroit Free Press ]
The Cincinnati Enquirer says: “Here
we are all going to the dogs politically
in Ohio. ’ People generally concede that
the Enquirer wing of politics is going to
the dogs.
The most startling of recent rumors is
one that Cameron and Forney, who have
been for a long time the bitterest of foes,
have become reconciled and are going to
pull together in political matters hereafter.
The moving cause is said to be Forney’s
desire for a scat in the Senate and Came
ron’s willingness to assist him if he will
help secure the nomination of Blaine to
the Presidency.
The New York Herald wants to know
why it did’nt occur to somebody to re
mark that while Williams failed to get
his landaulet, Richardson got a handsome
turnout.
The Cincinnati Enquirer intimates
that Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine, has one
ardent supporter of his claims to succeed
himself in the United States Senate. The
name of this supporter is Hamlin.
Carpenter, Conkling, Chandler et ed.,
ought to settle in Florida. There are no
daily papers there.
It is thought Justice Campbell of
Michigan, may give a decision against
Zach. Chandler’s re-election to tho Uni
ted States Senate.—Boston Rost.
Gov Allen, of Oliio, threw up his hat
when he read the President’s memoran
dum.—Boston Rost.
It made Butler and Logan sick to their
stomachs, but what they “threw" up is
not recorded.—Albany Argus.
If Dix ought to be re-elected Govern
or because he never drank any whisky,
wasn't there some mistake made in re
electing Grant to the Presidency?”—Ro
chester Union.
The New York * Herald says: An ex
change mixes Senator Carpenter np with
the scandal about Joseph and Potiphar’s
wife. What had Carpenter to do with
it ? Is he a friend of Joseph or the
lady?
Col. II. S. McComb, whoso suit against
the Credit Mobilier led to the exposure
of that disgraceful concern, has been
elected President of Delaware College.
The Brooklyn Argus consoles Bum
side for his anticipated defeat by re
calling the fact that the General is used
to it.
The question as to whether the city of
San Francisco ought to furnish its sala
ried officers with horses and carriages
with which to ride around and attend to
business and for pleasure, lias been settled
in the negative, after an elaborate consid
eration of the matter.
The Administration party in Wiscon
sin is suffering from a bad nightmare.
The nightmare is Senator Carpenter.
As they struggle under the- oppressive
agony they turn over the points of his
career—opposition to civil service res
form; opposition to the repeal of the
franking privilege; defense of a railroad
before one of the departments, which a
law of Congress forbade; defense of sena
tor Caldwell; defense of the back-pay
grab; defense of Credit Mobilier ; vote
for inflation : opposition to civil rights ;
Long Branch.—F. U Tribune.
While Carpenter and Conkling were
venting their spleen against the press
by the amendment of the judiciary act in
the Senate, Butler was signalizing his
possession of more than “forty jackass
power" by attempting to snbjugate the
press with the same weapon in the House.
There are three gentlemen who imagine
that they can suppress hornets by sitting
down on them.—Buffalo Courier.
Beecher says that dishonest office
holders are pretty fair representatives of
the constituents they represent, and that
whole communities are responsible for
the criminals they produce.
Worthy of Imitation.
We know of several young men, resi
dents of this city, whose conduct is wor
thy of imitation. One, a graduate of
Mercer College and we believe with the
highest honors, has taken hold of the
plow and is working daily in the field
with his hirad help, with a detemined N
spirit of making something for himself,
instead of loafing around the streets and
living off of his parents. Whilst another
young man, a graduate, we believe, of one
of the colleges of Athens, is to be found
daily following his plow and endeavoring !
to make an honest living by the sweat of 1
his brow. Whilst two others, raised in
affluence, are to be found at the brick
yard, near the city, hard at work, earn
ing an honest living. Still another, rais
ed in easy circumstances, can be seen
carrying brick to masons employed in
building Colonel Foster’s stores on the
corner of Court Square and Main street-
AI1 honor to such young men; we cannot
speak in too high praise of you. Remem.
ber, you are watched by men of influence,
and whilst you may be holding these posi
tions now, if you continue as you have
begun, it will not be long before you
work yourself into more important ones.—
Madison Home Journal.
Mechanics.
Who built all our cities, our villages,
every hamlet and cottage in the land?
Mechanics.
Who built every ship, steamer, vessel
and water craft that floats on wvery ocean
and plows the surface of every river? Me
chanics.
Who printed every Bible, hymn book
and newspaper, printed and bound every
printed volume on the face of the globe?
Mechanics.
Who constructs all the factories an5
work shops on the earth, and who runs
them? Mechanics.
Who constructs all our lines of rail
roads, their locomotives and cars, the
Pullman cars, and all the telegraph lines?
Mechanics.
Who makes every instrument of music,
from the organ down to the jewsharp?
Mechanics.
Who makes all agricultural implements
for cultivating the soil, all nautical in
struments for navigating the ocean? Me*,
chanics.
Who makes all the magnificent furni
ture that ornaments the mansions of the
rich—carpets, mantle ornaments, silver
and china table service? Mechanics.
Who makes all the jewelry that adorns
the persons of the ladies? Mechanics.
What would the eivilzied world be
without mechanics? A waste, howling
wilderness, and man a barbarian.
We never think of this brave class of
men, and their great work, without a
sense of profound gratitude prevading
our whole nature. We honor and revere
them for their great achievements. We
cannot expect every fool to do so how
ever.
To Destroy Bugs, Ants, etc.—No in
sect that crawls can live under the appli
cation of hot alum water. It will de
stroy red and black ants, cockroaches,
spiders, chintz bugs, and all the myriads
of crawling pests which infest our houses
during the heated term. Take two pounds
of alum and dissolve it in three or four
quarts of boiling water; let it stand on
the stove until the alum is all melted;
then apply it with a brush while nearly
boiling hot, to every joint and crevice in
your closets, bedsteads, pantry shelves
and the like. Brash the crevices in the
floor of the skirting or mop boards, if
you suspect tliat they harbor vermin. If
in white washing a ceiling, plenty of alum
is added to the lime, it will also serve to
keep insects at a distance. Cockroaches
will flee the paint which has been washed
in cool alum water. Sugar barrels and
boxes can be freed from ants by draw
ing a wide chalk mark just around the
edge of the top of them. The mark must
be unbroken, or they will creep over it,
but a continuous chalk mark, half an inch
in width, will set their depredations at
naught.
Nearly all dweeseg originate from lira- - «; on
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School*, Lodges, etc.
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From Washington.
The Preedaua'i Balk Bntrd.
Washington, July 2.—The mother bank
of the Freedman’s Trust Company has
suspended. A large number of colored
people are around the bank imploring
for money without success. It is under
stood that similar instructions have been
sent to New York and to all Sonthem
branches.
The Tribune says, editorially: “The
President of the bankrupt Freedman’s
Saving and Trust Company, at Washing
ton, and the Cashier of the branch in
this city, endeavor to explain in another
column the several causes of its failure.
Little stress is laid on the chief cause,
which was the withdrawal of deposits in
all branches for investment safely in
Washington and largely in the warrants
of the Board of Public Work. Explana
tions are more plentiful with the company
than good securities, but they will hardly
satisfy the unfortunate depositors."
CAPITAL GOSSIP.
The total dismissals amount to seven
hundred. It is rumored that G. W.
Schofield, of Pennsylvania, will be ap
pointed Postmaster-GeneraL Creswell
still presides. The commissioners to
examine the mouth of the Mississippi are:
Engineers, Generals Wright, Alexander
and Col. Comstock : civil engineers, W.
Miner Roberts, J. D. Whitcomb and Mr.
Sickles; coast survey, Prof. Mitchell
Mr. Corant was installed Assistant Sec
retary of the Treasury to-day. A. C.
Buell, correspondent of the Detroit Free
Press, was indicted to-day for criminal
libel for publinhing in that paper that
Zack Chandler was drank in the Senate.
The case comes up in September. The
trustees of the Freedman’s Bank hare
nominated Robert Purvis (colored), of
Philadelphia, Postmaster General Crea-
well and R. Leopold, commissi on ers to
settle np the concern. The work will
require two years. It is thought, with
proper management, that ninety-three
cents on the dollar will be realised.
More Beecher.—Mr. Beecher
izes the announeement that, “at the pro-
per time," he will make a statement which
will exonerate Tilton from all
to the misrepresentations alleged to have
been made concerning the nature of thaii
original quarrel. But he says he does
not wish to reopen the scandal; n*** it is
wholly a personal and private affair; and
he even goes so far as to warn Plymouth
Church that if a reopening and investiga
tion is insisted upon, he will resign his
pastorate—leave them without any Bee
cher. That is enough. No action is likely
to be tetoo, after suefr# tta*t*etfc*t.
The South Carolina Moses.—A Wash
ington letter says: “In view of the re
cent acts of Governor Moses, of South
Carolina, in pardoning people who had
been convicted of robbing the State, Re
publican members of Congress who have
remained here have expressed regret that
they did not include South Carolina when
ordering an investigation into govern
ment affairs in Arkansas. They say they
supposed that Moses would take warning
by tee speeches that were made in Con
gress, and would desist from the acts
J which have made him so infamous, and
have tended so much to ruin that once
proud State.
“There has been a good deal of un
favorable comment on tiie fact that, while
the Republican majority in the House
refused to order an investigation, at the
request and upon the petition of the
wealthiest and most reputable citizens of
South Carolina, natives of the State, who
were being plundered by an irresponsible
government, that it should have ordered
an investigation into the purely political
affairs of Arkansas, and that, too, at the
instance of a lot of carpet-baggers, whose
only interest in the State is to plunder
it”
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An American humorist tells us that it
would have been money in his pocket if
he had been born without a stomach, and
then proceeds to figure up the cost of a
chronic dyspepsia, to which he is a mar
tyr, and which he says it is impossible to
cure. On this point, “Josh Billings,”
(for he is the party referred to) is mis
taken. Unless his stomach differs from
all other dyspeptic stomachs, Hostetler's
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existence and Hostetter's Stomach
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almost every conceivable)speeies of torture
from this agonizing complaint, have been
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Cabbages aud their Znemies.
Lice, several species of worms and
“big-root or club-foot, arc the principal
pests with which we have to deal in the
cabbage patch. The lice are killed by
soot and ashes, and, doubtless, by other
applications, but it is difficult to get riJ
of them, as all can not easily be reached
by our remedies, and the few that may
remain soon again cover the plants by
their rapid multiplication. Painstaking
and perseverance, however, will save the
plants. Then come the worms. We
entrap and kill them by laying a fresh
cabbage leaf on the top of tlie plant at
night, to be examined the next morning,
most of the worms will be found on the
Underside of it and can be readily killed.
A correspondent of the Xoc England
Farmer deals with them in another way:
He gets half-a pound of saltpetre and
one-fourth of a pound of copperas, and
dissolves it in half a hogshead of water,
and as soon as the butterfly which lays
the eggs for the worms appears, he waters
the plant with the solution, repeating the
operation after each raid of the insects.
By this means he saves his cabbages, or
at least he thinks so. With clnb-foot we
have no experience, whether because wo
always give our cabbage bed a good
dressing of salt and lime, or from some
other cause, wc do not know. Wetting
the roots and then dressing them with
bone meal before planting is said to be a
preventive ; so is a teaspoonful of caustic
lime, applied by removing |a little earth
from around the plant, putting on the
lime, and then replacing it. Club-foot is
caused by an insect.
Rural Carolinian for July
Feas.
Wo have often urged a more extended
cultivation of this crop The usual ob*
jection to it is the difficulty of gathering,
when cotton picking is taxing tlie whole
force of the farm. To meet this, we have
suggested that the peas be drilled, and
then a hand with a tnoimug blade can lay
down acres of them in a day. If thiSj bo
done just before frost, the vines, leaves
and pads will make good coarse forage,
valuable for mules and cows. They will
need no curing scarcely, and may be quick
ly stacked or stored away. The small
grain fields recently harvested, afford
excellent land for peas. Tho whippoor
will or black Virginia pea, will mature
readily, if planted to themselves by tlie
15th or 20th of this month.— Ko'tthern.
Cultivator.
A new line of steamers is put ready to
commence its trips between New York
and Venezuela. The vessels are all Amcor-
can-built, and American-manned. They
will stop at St. Thomas, Laguayra, Porta
Cabello, Curacoa, and Maracaibo. Such
a communication has long been needed,
the trade of that rich section of the world
having been nearly monopolized by Sag-
land. Except a monthly' steamer to Bra
sil, no other American star mere sail to
goBth America w p*« tether c^mi i
Reliability.
There is not a function nor a position
in life in which reliability is not the most
valuable characteristic. Genius which
sends scamped work as often as noble
effort, andtheniaiu-st3y of an undertaking
not to be trusted for time or punctuality;
energies which are heroic on one occa
sion, then sink below the measure of a
child's strength on another; love that
bums like the sun to day, and is dead and
cold as a mere heap of ashes to-morrow
—who cares for such gifts as these? Beau
tiful as they are w r hen they come, they are
they are intrinsically worthless, be
cause so entirely unreliable; and qual
ities which have not half the show
shine of these have twice their value,
became always at hand when wanted,
shrams to be trusted in and relied on
when they have work to do and response
bilrties to fulfill. Yes, it is a grand qual*
ity; we.know none grander. It is the
very crown, the gathering in of so many
notable virtues which without it are of no
account, that we might part with many a
good gift bestowed by nature upon man
rather than with this which gives vitality
to all—this supreme excellence of reiia-
bihty. With it a poor man has his worth;
without it a demi-god his dangers and
his valuelessnose. It means everything
flia( is solid, everything that is trustwor
thy, and no one is so great that he can
do without it, no one bo humble that he
is not’ ennobled and made of value with
ifc . |
The war in Cuba still goes on with on-
a bated tery. Tho thing is so mixed it
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